I want stories of lunatic neighbors

and one time at band camp....

 

You can find out where they live and mail it back to them.

 

I will be putting a trail cam out soon to catch the perps!

 

Not a bad idea actually haha. Chances are they probably live somewhat nearby so I could probably figure that out pretty easily.

I'm reminded of another issue, we have a lot of Lift/Uber drivers around our neighborhood and on more than one occasion I've found fast food trash lying on the street where one of them is parked while they're in between rides or waiting on a customer. One of these days I want to be in the right place/right time to be able to throw their food and drink back through their window.

This thread is a fun place to vent, thanks OP lol

 

Your welcome

 

I've had 'interesting' neighbors on both sides at times in the 27 years I've been in this house. (Had excellent neighbors in the other 4 places I've lived)

I won't regale you with stories of these 2, because one is dead and the other was Baker Acted. Again.

I like my new neighbors ok. One has done a stellar job rehabing the property, the other is still working inside. But I'm thinking the non running A-Team style van in the drive needs to be 'stolen'.

 

Let’s see I have 3

First
I was a young home owner in a rich old neighborhood. Lady would let her dog shit in the my yard all the time. I’ve confronted her about quite a few times. I start picking up the shit and putting in her mailbox. Maillady was super nice and said that’s actually a crime lol. So I put it under her door handle of her Maserati that stopped.

Second
Old retire marine one star General was my neighbor in the same neighborhood. He would try to intimidate me in to cutting down a pulmeria tree in my yard cause the leaves and flowers would blow into his yard. So I woke up one morning to the damn asshole trying to cut down my tree with a hand saw cause he was trying to be quiet about it. Remedy I built a 6ft rock wall around my property

Third
Moved and bought a house in a different upper middle class neighborhood. There was a rental property next to me. My last year before I moved a white trash drunk asshole moved in a would get drunk and scream racist shit from his front lanai(patio). Then he started talking shit about my wife and other stuff. He said he was going to kill so I went off on him and told him I don’t miss when I shoot. He called the cops to get me on terroristic threatening. The four cops that showed up were really good friends of mine. Cops explained to him who I was and what I use to do for a living during and after the marine corps. So they told him to stop, and they told me if I catch him on my property or the public street hes fair game. He ended up leaving the island after he got 3 DUI’s in 10 days and also he lived at this property for 48 days the cops were called there 31 times.

 

“What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-uz_7nEn1-A

 

My neighbors kind of went the other way, since they were a bunch of "Literally" Hippies on the "Earthheart Mountain Healing Foundation", A.K.A. A place for a bunch of stoners to come and hang out. They were never violent or anything like that, but I learned to NEVER count on them to do ANYTHING they said they were going to do! Also, amazingly unreliable and totally incapable or taking care of ANYTHING they owned.

A couple of examples...once the head Hippie was gifted a new Stihl Chainsaw. He managed to fry it within an hour by running straight gas in it, thinking the oil you put in it for chain lube was used to lubricate the engine! Second... my late partner went there one day to borrow a gas can. He found 6 cans, NONE of which had their tops or spouts. The hippies would start to mow, run the mower out of gas, carry a can back out to the mower AFTER a "Safety break" of a doobie or two, open the can, drop the lid on the ground, and proceed to RUN OVER IT when the mower was restarted!

That's why my partner said that we didn't need cable television for entertainment, we had Earthheart!

They are almost all gone, so things are a lot quieter here now...

 

Disclaimer: I just moved to Vegas from the South, where people are generally friendly (but boy do I have some neighbor stories, though I'm sometimes the crazy neighbor). I'm also an animal lover.

Couple stories reflecting how weird it is to live with an HOA and in a non-friendly area:

--In August, the dryer went out. So, I rigged a clothesline with paracord in the backyard and hung the sheets out to dry. 45 min later as I'm folding them, the out of state landlord calls me from Cali all torn up because the HOA got a report that I'm hanging laundry out. In the backyard. (there are massive walls around the house though 2 neighbors can see in the backyard). In August. Whatever.

--November rolls around. I leave for Moab for the week of Thanksgiving. I get back that Sunday after Tgiving and realize the neighbor's dog has not stopped barking in the time it took me to unload a ridiculous amount of gear and crap from the truck. I had introduced myself to him (let's call him DBag1) like a proper neighbor when I moved in and met the dog - an intact, very large pit bull or PB mix who was friendly. I look over the wall down hill into DBag's yard, and realize the dog is super thin and has NO food, water or shelter evident. I go knock on the door, and see a foreclosure notice taped to the door...dated the day I left for Moab (8 days prior). I go ask the other neighbor (DBag2) who is pulling out of his garage, if he knows the guy. He does, and says DBag1 split after getting foreclosed on. WTF about the dog?? DBag2 says, yeah, he won't stop barking. No one has been by to feed him or give water, either.
[WTF??? So...I get the HOA called on me after 45 min for sheets but dog abandonment gets no reaction from anyone? I hate HOAs and plan to move]

I promptly build a rope system to lower water over the wall (I can't go through the gate and the dog got aggressive when I started to climb over it). I go buy dog food and lower it over the wall. I then ask DBag2 if he has DBag1's number, which he does. It doesn't work. I spend 2 hours trying to track down DBag1 on the internet to ask him if he is coming back for the dog - can't get a response from any number, and researching bully breed laws and dog rescue. The next day I call Animal Control. They promptly arrive --confirming the dog was in seriously bad shape, they took the dog, leaving more paperwork taped to his door. Two nights later, I hear this crazy pounding at the door. It's DBag 1, with DBag 2 behind him, both yelling, cussing me every name in the book, and threatening me because I got his dog confiscated. I don't open the door, I can see what's going on out the window. After 20 min of that, he leaves and starts moving out. I never see him again but DBag2 yells Bitch at me every time he sees me. I mean, I feel bad that the house got foreclosed but he had a brand new Lexus and a fancy Infiniti so who knows what the deal was. The dog went to breed rescue and I've been tracking his progress with them (he seems much happier!). In theory I live in a nicer part of town but yeah...crazy neighbors. I keep my head on a swivel at all times coming/going.

Funny thread.

 

My Mom and Dad had new sod put in front and back, along with other landscaping. Neighbor down the block has a bunch of outside cats - mostly feral we think. They all use my parents new grass in the backyard as a litterbox and it's killing it. Brown spots everywhere. So I told him to get one of these. This might workfor you as well. Just position it in a way that it only activates when something is on your lawn. Oh, and get a trail cam to post videos here for our entertainment.

 

LOL at that last photo, that's funny. Good suggestion thanks, didn't know motion activated sprinklers existed haha

 

My next door neighbors are angry and drunk most of the time. The husband is extremely passive aggressive while the wife is the cliche low IQ / high volume know it all that thinks the world revolves around her.

Anyway, last August, our neighborhood had a couple of break-ins where the thieves would hop the fence from the open space and enter houses through basement window wells. My wife and I were about to go on vacation for a week and I wanted to something to protect the house a little so I purchased a few Blink-XT cameras and installed them the night before we left. Everything was fine, the vacation was fine and no issues... Until we got home.

As soon as we arrived, both of our phones started blowing up with calls and text messages from mutual friends in the neighborhood. Come to find out, the entire week we were gone, the neighbor wife had been trashing us on social media and telling all of our neighbors that we were spying on her, that we were perverts and that she was going to call the cops and bring lawsuits against us. All because of the camera in the back yard.

My wife, wanting to preserve the peace, texted the husband and asked if they could talk it out, he agreed. As she heads outside to talk to him, she tells me to stay inside (knowing that I'm not quite as level headed as she is) I agree. She leaves the front door open so I can hear everything. The first words out of the husbands mouth are: "move the camera or take it down" and before my wife could complete a sentence the harpy neighbor wife comes flying out of their garage and at the top of her lungs begins screaming at my wife that she's a stupid bitch and I'm sexual predator and pervert and she's going to own our asses after she sues us and she's going to beat our asses, etc... etc.. My wife, knowing that talking isn't going to work just says "This is over." and walks inside as the harpy continues to squak.

Since then, we haven't spoken to them and they have been very reclusive, but they continue to burn bridges with most of the other neighbors. While I hope this is the last encounter, I doubt it. As angry as she is and with the influence of alcohol, we will eventually have to involve the police.

 

I've got a neighbor I call Crazy Carroll. She asks me for bandaids (cannot be a generic brand) on the regular and she always wants to show me a "wound" which is inevitably "seeping" as she loves to point out.

 

My previous neighbor was Robert Miller a professor at Uconn. He was charged with pedophilia dating back decades.

https://www.courant.com/education/hc-xpm-2014-05-14-hc-uconn-miller-retired-0514-20140514-story.html

 

One of my neighbors waved at me once as I was leaving for work, I was mortified.
Like who is this mf'r?

 

At my old House the Guy across the street used to trim his trees with a shotgun.
And the Woman next door used to get drunk and cut her grass on a riding mower naked.

 

Used to find piles of dog crap in my front yard, from a big dog. One summer evening a couple with a big rottweiler walk by. Dog stops, takes a dump, they keep walking. I said 'Scuse me. The woman looks up and says "Oh we forgot a bag, we'll come back an clean it up." And they kept walking. I went in, got a plastic grocery bag, scooped it up and ran down the street. When I caught up I said "Here, just in case you forget, like you did all the other times. By the way, this was your get out of jail free card. Don't do it again." That was the last time it happened.

 

shoot the sob and bring body up to Murder mountain in the emerald triangle all kids of weed growers and people missing all the time.

 

I got a new neighbor a few years ago. He got a new handgun. He mowed his lawn in a wife beater shirt and gym shorts, with a belt and holster. He did this for most of the summer. I’m a second amendment type of guy, but come on Goobber, look in the mirror.